A gold watch is something men earned after years of service, so strange the man left it in the box, and on top of that the fact it ended up in a thrift store for 8$. These are the sorts of finds I yearn for. And Standard Oil is/was a pillar of the Oil industry, this watch is all sorts of awesome. I believe Standard oil became 'Chevron'.thanks!The AF is nice, but not anything particularly special. That was a standard tag in the mid 2000's.

The aforementioned 1865 leather bound King James bible I found on Monday.
The inscription reads:
“This Bible was presented by the Rev.d Thomas Howard to Christian Corwin for committing to memory a select portion of Scripture. January 1. 1865 John V. 39.
‘Search the Scriptures’. “

I go away for a few days and come back to 800 posts. Holy moley, you guys are busy.
For a minute I thought all the good stuff was gone, and then today hit the mother lode. (I will edit in pictures when I have proper light)
today I found:
Leather Bound King James Bible inscribed "... Jan. 1 1865" Upon seeing the date I hoped it was a Union soldiers bible, but upon reviewing the inscription it is nice but not as stupendous of a find as a soldiers bible. This one was a...